Buy your tickets online, wait in line. A really long line. The poor person running the check in…read moreline took a ton of unnecessary abuse. Breweries sent barrels of beer, but volunteers from South Siskiyou County were manning the taps and didn't know anything about the beer they were serving or the breweries they came from. Friendly for sure, but it fell way short of their Brewfests in the past and others run in Northern California. If they don't do something different this year we won't return.

ATTN: Beer Lovers…read more Last years had over 30 breweries pouring over 100 craft beers. Although i didnt make it till the end, there was still great beers pouring and phenomenal music filling the grassy Babe Ruth memorial ball field. Looking forward to this years round up of craft beers, great music and new friends. Oh and the weather, a pleasant 70 degrees with shade to be had almost the whole day (i was told)...:)

Call me biased but I have helped out/volunteered with the Redding fire festival since I was 14…read moreyears old I now help run the festival and I cannot believe how much we have grown over the years. We now do our festival at Anderson Fairgrounds. We started off in Caldwell Park that should give you an idea on how much we have grown over the years. We try to make the festival, fun and enjoyable for all ages, we offer multiple different vendors to check out durning the day. We also have multiple different fire and circus acts that we offer in the evening. A lot of which most have actually reached out to us, wanting to join our festival. We make sure to have all safety protocols for our fire dancers we have multiple volunteers for these acts with different safety measures to put out any accidents that may happen on stage. We take our performers and the public's safety very seriously especially after the Carr fire. We keep our festivals professional and fun for all ages.

Hi, this is a great professional Fire Festival. Live performers, bands, fire dancers-some…read moreperformers walked the festival interacting with everyone , others were on stage. The festival offers something for everyone between the entertainers to vendors of great foods and a wide variety of art and unique items. You should come early to stroll the festival, have some food and stay to watch the night performances of fire dancers. It's a great festival. We have sold (been an artistic vendor) for two fire festivals here and each year gets better and better. Everyone should go once to experience a great unique adventure. It's great for families and well worth spending a day having fun.

I stumbled upon this wonderful RV park, in McArthur, CA. Gravel pull-thru sites. Beautiful views…read moreof Mt. Shasta. Surrounded by beauty. Very peaceful. Internet connection is amazing

Beautiful country area! We stayed here while working in the area it was quiet and spacious. The…read morebest part though was the owners! Very pleasant and kind people they go out of their way to know you by name and be accommodating. It felt like we were part of the community even though we were only there for a bit. 100% recommend staying here if you are in the area.

Amazing time once again this year at the annual strawberry festival. Held at west valley highschool…read morein happy valley. Tons of sweet treats including their famous shortcake which is HUGE and includes a big portion of vanilla ice cream. Lots of food vendors as well. Craft vendors, face painting, air brush tattoos and even pony rides for the kids. And don't forget about the gotta have super DELICIOUS kettle corn, made in front of you and given to you while it's still warm. Can't beat that. Live music and dancing. Fun times for all ages and a awesome experience for the entire family. A must go to for anyone that's never been. Every May is the time this event happens. We had a blast!!

Pass on the Sysco Buckets of Strawberrys over Sysco Cake and Sysco Ice Cream. What a joke. Millions…read moreof Strawberrys produced locally and not a single strawberry product to be found. Clearly a money grab and a shameful one at that. If you're going to represent a product, highlight the local farmers and businesses that revolve around it.

Paesano Days is a local three-day Italian heritage festival in Anderson River Park, held annually…read moreon the first weekend of August. The event features a Spaghetti feed and other italian food, live music, raffles, and vendors of various crafts. But the centerpiece of Paesano Days is the 32-team, 128-person, double-elimination bocce ball tournament. This was my rookie year in the event, replacing a friend who had moved to SoCal. The pressure was on, because my buddies who make up the team I was joining won the tournament two years ago and lost in the finals the year before that. After easily winning our first match on Friday night, we got crushed Saturday morning 11-0 by a group of four gals who the God of the Catholics had apparently decided were going to skunk us. It was utterly ridiculous how often we caught bad breaks in that game, which was over in about 10 minutes. That put us in the losers bracket, which is a tough route to the finals. You have to win about 5 or 6 matches in a row to reach the final, and then you have to beat the team that went through the winner's bracket twice. We made it to Sunday, which is the annual baseline goal of my team. The highlight of the tournament was beating the team of flat-bellied youngsters who take the game very seriously -- kin of the former MLB outfielder and vice-mayor of Redding, Rick Bocetti (known for his claim that he urinated in the outfields of every major league ballpark during his career). The youngsters looked like they'd just seen prophetic visions of how they were all going to die in a fire when we finished with 'em. And I rolled the winning ball. Sweet. But in our second game Sunday morning we got hammered, in large part because my teammate and I on the west end of the court got 'four-banged" by playing stupid and rolling bad. ("Four-banged" = your opponents scoring with all four of their balls in one frame.) It's hard to come back from getting four-banged when you're playing to 11. I had more than held my own throughout the tournament up to that point, but that decisive four-banger was mostly my fault. Bummer, but it was pretty cool getting schooled by an 75-year-old ringer -- the tight-roller from Siciliy who was at my end of the court. That old guy was a sweetheart, but spoke halting English in one of the most impenetrable accents I've ever heard. Old Sicilian: "Dominic.....eeesa ma sona." My partner: "Excuse me?" Old Sicilian: "Dominic......(pointing at his son and partner Dom).........eeesa ma sona." My partner: "Uh......yeah. I think it's 4-2." Whoever rolled a good shot -- us or them -- the old guy is mumbling, "Bella........bella......eeesa gooda." If you're going to get your ass handed to you, it's an honor getting it handed to you by the old pro from Palermo who might have been there when they invented the game.

I am the REAL Lynn B. and I did not post the "un-recommended" review of the 4 & 20 Blackbird Music…read moreFestival. In fact, I have never been to Weed, Ca. and never even heard of the Festival until I received an email about the post today. And more importantly, I would never be interested in attending a music festival of any kind. I am concerned that the message was posted quite some time ago and Yelp did not catch that fact that it was posted fraudulently. You will please notice that my user name is attached to an icon of a tiger, and the user name attached to the fraudulent post contains no icon. If you are offend by the post, contact Yelp. Please do not email me. Thanks for listening, The "real" Lynn B.

This will be our second time with my niece and nephews. Last year the lines were so long we cut it…read moreshort gladly we went mid day this year. At night the fair looks beautiful overall some rides seem run down and sadly some were closed off due to technical difficulties. But the food can be delicious, greasy, a bit pricey and some can be nutritious. Overall enjoyed the somewhat diverse rides, animal farms, food etc

Apparently in Redding, during the summer, on Thursdays, they have a little thing called Market…read moreFest, or as my BF's family calls it, Hippie Fest =) I went here last night and discovered why they call it hippie fest. A few woman were dressed in long flowing skirts, no bras, and I swear not, a couple had flowers in their hair. The best was the old man with the braided beard wearing a tie dyed t-shirt, camouflage shorts, and Birkenstocks with tall white tube socks. He won, in my head, the best dressed hippie, not to mention a smile from me. Last night they had African influenced music with great dancers. They were fun to watch in the sweltering 106 degree Redding heat. The bad part is the fact that there weren't very many arts and craft booths or food booths. My favorite part about a festival is browsing all the different booths and trying to pig out on as many food stands as possible. I saw about 6 stands of beaded necklaces, beach inspired post cards, magnets, oh, and lets not for get those tie dyed clothes. Then there were only a few food stands; pizza, sausage, ice cream, kettle corn and snow cones, pretty disappointing. They had quite possibly the smallest farmers market. I didn't buy anything so I cant comment on whether or not the fruits/vegetables were ripe, tasty, or priced well. Another con was the fact that there was only one beer booth and the line was so long. Five dollars for the smallest plastic cup of beer I've ever seen. Whatever happened to those red plastic party cups? Those are worthy of five bucks if filled to the top. On the plus side, Its free to get in, fun to watch all the people dance, gets you out of the house on a summer weeknight and from what I hear they have different performances/music every Thursday. Will I return the next time I visit Redding in the summer? Um, not unless I plan on sweating my butt off and over paying for beer or have a great desire of buying a tie dyed shirt. I guess I'm just used to the bigger festivals Ive attended at other city affairs. But don't let me stop you from at least experiencing one hippie fest..err Market Fest.